"MQTT is really the enabler, this is the key that allows a whole lot of different home automation devices to talk to each other."
"In the 21st century it may be that no home will be complete without a computerized communications console."
"It's a $250 flying camera drone that takes off from its dock in the event that your other Ring devices detect a break-in while you're away."
"Automatically turn off lights, TV, or any smart device connected to SmartThings when you fall asleep."
"This is a mood light switch, when turning it on, red light will coat the bed and soft music starts playing through the speakers in the room."
"And speaking of smart devices, let me show you these very cool and flashy Nova Stella smart LED light bulbs."
"I put all the smart bulbs and all that stuff in my house last year... I got the hue and I got the puck."
"Every time your thermostat turns yellow, it's time to warm that bad boy back up again."
"One of my favorite aspects of this device is the home automation aspect."
"I made a device that checks the council website and lights up to show you what color bin to put out, I call it the bindicator."
"The home app is a great new addition, you don't have to rely on any third-party apps anymore to control your home kit devices."
"They did announce like something related to the HomePods, is this new intercom functionality which I think is kind of cool."
"Home assistant wins hands down when it comes to choosing between these two."
"Robot kitchen: the future of cooking and cleaning."
"Control4 is the system that we use in all of our home automation projects."
"Expandable system: integrate new appliances or upgrade existing ones."
"Lutron Caseta switches: they're bulletproof."
"Lutron Serena shades: holy crap I love these."
"Smart devices control Carnegie la capilla de casa grande opala."
"Fortunately, because these are Z-wave devices, we have the solution. We should, by the end of this video, be able to reconfigure these smart switches to..."
"The role of a Raspberry Pi in this situation is just a stand-in to run Home Assistant, which is like the piece of software that's going to tell, 'Hey light switch, do that thing...'"
"True Home to the rescue... built to automate all aspects of home maintenance."
"With smart lighting from Luke Roberts, you get unlimited lighting possibilities by simply painting your light."
"Apple HomeKit in iOS 14: automation made a lot more simple."
"Home Assistant is a free local open source platform that allows products from hundreds of different manufacturers and protocols to integrate seamlessly with DIY projects and homemade solutions."
"Artificial intelligence is taking over our homes, and it's starting from the driveway."
"I set out to build the best dang smart home that ever was."
"That's number one reason of why you should put all your lights on a timer."
"This car will come up the driveway, the RF frequency will shoot out, and this door will open up. This is the difference between rich people's homes and my house because I could barely open my own garage with my clicker."
"We wanted to make a home robot that's not just a toy but something built to last, to be truly useful week after week."
"Be creative with that. Use technology, man! Use the automation in your home."
"The Apple smart home finally just got a whole lot better."
"I've gone all out here too on Philips Hue and automation."
"You can either slowly move devices and automations over little by little or do it in one fell swoop."
"Set Loft to cooling, it's set to cool."
"This is a smart speaker, so you can use it while it's docked."
"Most people just want a home appliance to be able to run Home Assistant and Plex Media Server or Jellyfin."
"Choosing your primary or even secondary hubs carefully is one of the most important decisions you can make in your smart home."
"I've been able to create zones in the biggest room in my home... and have the device successfully know when I or anyone else in my household are moving between those spaces."
"Engineers are looking at the idea of a mobile robot that can follow users around their homes."
"This becomes a really great option for an inexpensive DIY smart home control system."
"I have been waiting for Google for a long time to add this into the Google home app."
"Samsung SmartThings changes into something much more powerful."
"Make your Samsung SmartThings experience amazing."
"Ask for something in the future, like turning off the lights after a certain amount of time."
"My home life is tremendously improved by AI even today."
"Never fear because in today's video we're going to take a look at the fundamental configuration building block of home assistant YAML."
"My whole pump system, UV system, and all the lights are connected via a Philips Hue system."
"I think in a lot of cases you're going to want to cut out that physical switch and then have it act just like the light switch."
"So, when I ask for all the lights to turn on, it turns on that relay."
"The SwitchBot automatic curtain opener is rechargeable, takes only a few minutes to install, and can be controlled with your phone."
"Home kit and Siri, but home kit make sure to purchase some HomeKit devices."
"Finally here, I have Home Assistant set up, and this is my plan to migrate all my existing Home Assistant setup from my current server."
"As a big homeit user, it'll be great to have access to all of these GOI products through matter in our Apple home app in 2024."
"Did I really need to install complicated wed lights into my kitchen? No, definitely not. But I'm a massive nerd and this was a fun home automation project."
"Every home assistant user needs to master scripts; they can massively save you time and simplify your automations."
"Here in the future, your home in the country will be a smart home that automatically knows what you want, almost as soon as you do."
"My smart home currently is actually a smart apartment, so for those of you who live in an apartment and are kind of bummed that you feel like you can't actually do a lot of automation, I'm here to tell you that is definitely not true."
"Home automation is something we're going to continue to see. Anything that you can control from an app, from your phone, these are things that are going to make life a lot easier and we'll continue to see from here on out."
"...when I walk in on my front door right here, boom, I'll press this number one button, and whatever scene I set up, whatever grouping of individual lights, all those will turn on."
"No difference between this and running your entire home, just size and cost."
"The ending of the song really emphasizes the good-hearted nature of her character."
"I installed a bunch of these, like, powered Smart cellular shades, so I can do stuff like close the kitchen center shade."
"So it's very convenient to control the thermostat using your phone."
"Your thermostat can save energy by automatically adjusting the temperature when no one is home."
"Using home assistant immediately ticks off two of my smart home tenants: compatibility across multiple vendors and local control."
"No more wondering did I leave the lights on when we come back home."
"And finally, I love my automated curtains and blinds."
"Those are my top automations which I'm currently using in my house."
"If you want more home automation ideas then I suggest looking at this playlist which goes into all of my home automations in much more detail."
"If you do not have an apple home hub, then you can still add accessories that support apple home and control your smart home devices."
"It's transforming how we live in a home, and it's also transforming how we build homes so that they can be more affordable."
"You could turn on the living room lights, control one specific lamp, or everything in your house. You could arm your security system, or shut the garage door. You can even control outdoor gadgets like smart sprinklers."
"One of the reasons why I really like the Vocolinc light strips is because they work well, they're reliable in HomeKit, and they have some awesome lighting effects that you can use within HomeKit which really sets these apart."
"ESP Home is a open source project that allows you to quickly build out custom smart home solutions."
"This tablet controls many of the different settings so you can adjust your lighting, curtains, TV, and even control the temperature of the air conditioner."
"I would love to install new light switches that I can control through my phone."
"I have Sonos in my house built into the ceilings and I love it."
"As a bonus, through scripted, you can also install the cameras via home kit which can give you access to motion sensor data and help you to better tailor your automations."
"Smart thermostats: energy-saving convenience."
"My principle with home automation is it has to be additive. If you want to have a smart home, it should actually be smart. It shouldn't be stupid."
"Love having manual control. That is always an added benefit in a smart home."
"Having these smart shades in here is going to be a really nice addition."
"I recommend this app to people all the time even if you don't have any Eve accessories or products just because it's a great home kit app."
"These graphs can display sensor and binary sensor information from our home assistant, so they're just nice customizable graphs that we can make use of on our dashboards."
"Smart shades that support thread."
"In a nutshell, it's a low power wireless mesh networking protocol based on IP, and is said to be a big part of the future of the smart home."
"I got into home automation because I wanted my own version of Jarvis."
"SwitchBot's Hub 2 is preparing the system for that as well as introducing some pretty key new features."
"But even if you aren't looking to turn your home into a sarcastic AI-powered assistant, there may come a time when you want your home to notify you of things verbally."
"Let's start off with some home automation tasks."
"Using variables in our automations in our home makes your smart home even smarter."
"If you install multiple brilliant panels around your house, there's also an intercom feature."
"Home Assistant: a smart home platform, not just software."
"alexa, ask beehive to water zone one for one minute"
"...enable notifications on your phone. And once all of that has been done, now we can go back into Home Assistant and actually make a few configuration changes and then create an automation to trigger a notification on your phone."
"So what are some of the benefits in going with the Jervis Systems? Well, you can secure your home, business, or rental properties with the top-of-the-line smart locks and smart garage door openers."
"Now, I'm actually going to run my Narwhal robot vacuum so that way it can do the vacuuming and the rest of the downstairs for me."
"Alexa, play my top songs. Alexa, turn off my lights."
"What the market really needs right now is a simple and easy-to-use solution to adding smarts to your existing garage door."
"Frigate is essentially a dedicated or a total NVR solution that is built right into home assistant."
"We have power awnings in both the living room and in the bedroom."
"We're not quite at the Jetsons yet, but I can now leave the house and leave the Robo Rock Q7 Plus to vacuum and mop the house."
"You can lay down in bed and kill your ceiling lights without having to get up."
"These LED lights that I put in the ceiling are RGB, so I do have them set up so that I can say, 'Alexa, turn the lights blue.'"
"So if you're looking for a smart thermostat, I think Ecobee is where it's at."
"And then to take it a step further, I'm going to show you how you can create timers within HomeKit."
"Oh today's gonna be fun, we are talking about one of my favorite things... no, scratch that, two of my favorite things: HomeKit automations and Siri shortcuts."
"It's a sensing device, it's a control device, and it's its own gateway computer, if you will, for the home."
"We're the only product that allows you to digitally not just control circuits and loads in your home but also automate what your home does when there's an outage."
"I think ecobee does an excellent job of giving the user control over the temperature of their house."
"DITRA-HEAT-E-WiFi thermostat provides convenient monitoring and adjustment of the floor warming system via the web or mobile app."
"That is the thermostat function or the auto on and auto off function."
"I love Synology to spend the time to build a HomeBridge plug-in."
"So today what I want to do is show you how I'm bringing in my weather data directly to Home Assistant using a Raspberry Pi, an SDR receiver, and MQTT."
"You're actually kind of directly contributing and helping out and supporting the Home Assistant effort."
"The one we're going to build not only will be available over Wi-Fi, but of course, we're going to be able to integrate that into home assistant, control it, and use it for automations."
"That's been a quick look at how to flash firmware to the Sonoff Zigbee dongle as well as a quick guide on setting up an MQTT broker and Zigbee to MQTT all within Home Assistant."
"Sometimes you want your smart home to be automated and to do things behind the scenes without you actually thinking about it."
"Hass Agent will now restart to activate your configuration."
"You can control your PC as if it were a regular media player through Home Assistant."
"Hass Agent can do much more than just what I'm demonstrating today."
"The home assistant cloud is an easy way for you to connect to home assistant."
"These shades are a great option at a very good reasonable competitive price for your Apple smart home or for any smart home for that matter."
"It has a high Precision fingerprint reader, Apple Home and Home Key support, auto lock and always open mode."
"If you are a beginner looking to get started with some Zigbee devices inside of Home Assistant, then this could definitely be a great option for you."
"The new Aqara Hub M2 is a great way to do that; it's fast, it's easy to use, they've got loads of devices, and it works really well."
"If you're a Home Assistant user like me, then you might not be as interested in the hub, but the rest of the sensors and devices are a great addition."
"I have spent more time trying to make ceiling fan smart than any other smart home product in my home."
"Everything in this house is accessible by HomeKit."
"I managed to turn the laundry room into a smart laundry room."
"We're going to name our voice assistant Jarvis and then we're going to install it into the ceiling of our home."
"We'll be able to configure and create our own user interfaces and we'll also be able to control various different scenes, scripts, and automations all using Home Assistant."
"It's truly going to make your home smarter."
"You can come to the kitchen and the water is hot at the temperature you set the night before."
"The coolest thing is the built-in music mode, so whenever you're having a party, you can synchronize your lights."
"Brilliant is compatible with the Google Assistant, the Amazon Assistant, or Apple HomeKit."
"It's a completely smart house so you can control the iPad right next to the entrance."
"This setup is all running inside my house with nothing going out to any cloud anywhere. There's no subscriptions, no cloud accounts, no special hardware."
"One of the interesting things though that you can do with your Wyze video doorbell is trigger particular actions based on things that happen with the video doorbell."
"This project is super easy to set up on Home Assistant; the developer has done a fantastic job."
"Earlier this year, I started building a simple AI to help run our home."
"We are also expecting some additional features in HomeKit with iOS 14."
"Learn about the Internet of Things with a project that lets you monitor the temperature, humidity, and light level of a room from an app on your smartphone."
"If you're into smart homes, home automation, and especially HomeKit, you're definitely in the right place."
"You can put this one box anywhere in your house that's centrally located, and you can control all kinds of things within your home assistant setup."
"Rosie the Roomba... she is incredible."
"That makes it a very easy and cheap way into home automation."
"Let's start by saying what is an add-on: An add-on is an additional bit of software that you can add to your Home Assistant instance to gain extra functionality."
"HomeBridge really unlocks a whole array of extra devices that you can use with your Apple Home setup."
"If you're serious about using Apple Home and about home automation, it really is worth the time investment and the money investment just to go and set something like this up."
"Raspberry Pis are undoubtedly one of the easiest ways to get started with home assistant."
"It's easy to set up, fast response time, and even better, no hub required."
"Dell 3040s will always be one of my go-to recommendations for Home Assistant."
"Are you looking to take your home assistant dashboard and make it look more like a dashboard and less like a data dump?"
"By the end of this video, you too will be up and running with Homebridge."
"Blue Heron, you have the option to fully automate your entire home."
"Aara has an amazing automation engine, especially when compared to Philips Hue, so there's so much benefit here."
"Imagine living in a nine thousand square foot home and you have that opportunity to control your whole house through one system."
"It will then adjust the blinds so that they angle the light to light up the room instead of just hitting you right in the eyes."
"Their new Hub 2 here I found to be a really useful product."
"As you blaze new trails when you go back home and install that thermostat, you can be that cool Trailblazer at home, at work, and take this great learning from Salesforce back home."
"It provides sensors for a per parm mobile wheelchairs and if there's any application for home assistant, it is one to help people with disabilities."
"Ten years from now we'll all have useful swarming robots in our moving on their home but at least maybe in our yard."
"Home Assistant contains already 286 built-in components and platforms."
"Luna and Emo are some of the best home robots that you can possibly get on the market today."
"Every single light in my house turned on a hundred percent then everything went completely black."
"With some additional hardware... it's possible to create what's called high availability failover for Home Assistant."
"Eve makes quality products for Apple HomeKit with privacy in mind."
"Smart devices in home automation have been really taking off over the last couple of years."
"Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that puts your privacy first."
"Once you have had a multiplex lighting system, you will not accept anything else; it is really terrific."
"Smart recovery... your ecobee's going to automatically start heating or cooling your home to reach that desired temperature."
"It's truly amazing what HA can already do and it's improving all the time."
"Now it's time to head into the home assistant app."
"HomeKit outlets are game-changing."
"Introducing Suncraft Smart Shades, the easiest way to automate your existing window shades or blinds, promoting a healthier lifestyle."
"The best part is we can integrate it with home assistant, which is a fantastic means of aggregating data to analyze consumption."
"We can now directly add some SwitchBot devices directly to Home Assistant."
"Taking you out of the cloud is just damn cool, and you should probably do it instead of relying on someone else's internet and cloud to control the stuff in your home that you paid for."
"So what is home automation? Home automation is the control and monitor of housing appliances and objects using electronic devices."
"It's my favorite part of the house right now, just like clicking a button and the blinds go up. It's life-changing."
"I can't wait to get nests and make it a smart home."
"I deeply resent this Google Nest in my house that's constantly fighting with me about what the temperature should be."
"It was so easy to set up, I'm securing my house with them, securing my garage."
"If you're like me and like to see everything under your stand lit up when you're working under there, you can use a magnetic reed switch to tell the Apex to turn on a light when the cabinet door swings open."
"Your thermostat... keeps your house always at a perfect temperature."
"Action Tiles is a control panel where you can control all of your smart home tech and scenes right from one control center."
"In this video, I'm going to show you five ways you can automate your lights and home assistant."
"Simple automation: we're going to turn on lights at sunset."
"Turning on lights when people come home."
"Motion activated lights: you're gonna need a motion sensor and you'll need some lights."
"Super excited to have a retrofit option like this for my blinds that supports home kit natively now thanks to matter."
"IoT is super broad, so it's nice to find different communities where you can talk about maybe a home automation system that you did in your house."
"It controls your home lighting and it's a pretty proficient two-channel DJ setup."
"This is one of the best looking motion sensors that I've seen."
"It plays music, they're not great because of the size of the speaker and the power, but if you have text-to-speech from Home Assistant, then... breakfast, come to the table please."
"Home Assistant is open-source home automation, ESPHome is open-source microcontroller creation."
"With the rule engine and the dashboard, you can check if all the doors are locked, if they're all closed, turn off all the lights before going to bed."
"The Maris dimmer with remote has definitely made my home smarter and without breaking the bank."